The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:05, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bikini atomic experiments (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

This article is essentially a smaller and vastly inferior version of the Operation Crossroads article, and all material mentioned in the former is also covered in the latter. As both articles cover the same topic, I'm nominating this one for deletion so as to have one well cited article on the subject. TomStar81 (Talk) 22:29, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Operation Crossroads, as it's a reasonable search term. Edward321 (talk) 23:32, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge Wow, two articles on the same topic since 2004. Crossroads looks like the better article and title and is more heavily edited, but that can be taken care of with regular editing. - 2/0 (cont.) 01:17, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep and expand per Wronkiew, below. - 2/0 (cont.) 17:44, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Don't see any reason not to redirect - *someone* presumably thought "atomic experiments" was a useful title! Shimgray | talk | 20:02, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment - is this article supposed to cover every experiment that occurred at Bikini while Crossroads covers just the most famous test? If so, keep. If not, merge if possible and redirect. —Ed (Talk • Contribs) 03:15, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per Wronkiew (talk · contribs) immediately below, although might a suggest a change in name to Bikini atomic tests? —Ed (Talk • Contribs) 07:37, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

    I agree, Bikini atomic tests is a better title for this subject. Wronkiew (talk) 05:43, 22 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep, some reorganization is needed, but deletion of this article is unnecessary. It should include content about, or links to, Operation Crossroads, Operation Castle, Operation Redwing, and Operation Hardtack. Wronkiew (talk) 05:54, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep as Wronkiew. There were several operations at Bikini, there's scope for an overall article across all of them, focussed more on the location and the lasting effects of the tests, more than the individual tests. Needs work though - we don't want to keep this just as a partial duplicate of Crossroads. Andy Dingley (talk) 11:19, 22 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Speedy Keep This is clearly a marge discussion and this article seems the best destination. Colonel Warden (talk) 12:10, 22 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I tried that once and no one saw interested in the proposed merge. I am fed up of having two articles on the same subject here, hence the delete. I am not in favor of keeping both articles, crossroads can comfortably handle everything covered here, including the various atomic bomb tests cited by Wronkiew. TomStar81 (Talk) 01:28, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Crossroads can handle the 1946 tests, but it can't handle the operations after this, like Castle - Bikini was used for testing for a decade or so. Andy Dingley (talk) 08:51, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.